32 reviews of Bordeaux Wine Day Trip
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4.5! Excellent tour. Lunch was outstanding! Afternoon visits to 2 wineries were excellent as well. Morning could have included another museum or landmark.
Great overall tour, would highly recommend. Good value for money.
Very well organised. Excellent guide who spoke both English and French. Overall I thought it vey informative and enjoyable without being tedious towards the end!
Lovely trip. Food was excellent. Vineyards were beautiful.
This trip was informative and a great value.
Fantastic full day tour including the history of wine making in Bordeaux and trip to vinyard. The bonus was having lunch included at the 'Cheese & Wine' restaurant, where you pick your own cheese board from about 50 different cheeses!! I would recommend this to everyone visiting Bordeaux
Day trip including museum tour, lunch and trip to St Emillon vineyards was excellent value and enjoyable. Guides were well informed and entertaining. Perhaps there was a little bit too much walking in the morning which may not be suitable for elderly people. Aside from that, assez bien!
In general an excellent day out a worthwhile trip, and very good value for money especially considering the lunchtime meal. My only criticism I've seen this mentioned in other reviews was that the tour was conducted in both French and English. This means quite a lot of standing around. Not so bad in the afternooons at the Chateaux, as we could wander about during the French explanations, but the morning museum trip passed very slowly... Would have been nice to split the groups. Our morning consisted of a visit to the wine museum, followed by a walking tour of the Wine Merchant district. An excellent lunch was provided at a Fromagerie if you are a cheeseoholic you should probably seek professional help after devouring their cheese cave if you are fromageophobic like my girlfriend, they still do a decent main course and dessert. After lunch, we joined up with the half-day tour, so the number of people doubled. The chateaux visits are almost luck-of-the-draw. The first one pretty as it was we spent most of our time in a large shed. The second chateau, in contrast, was magnificent. Summary - Plenty of wine tasting I believe we sampled 6 - Opportunity for shopping at each stop - Learn about the wine making process and the region - Friendly tour guide, and helpful chateaux guides
This was much more than a wine tour going from cellar door to cellar door. It added history and understanding to what Bordeaux wines are and where they came from.
Fantastic day, excellent value for money, the cheese restaurant was brilliant and the cheeses were out of this world. All was very interesting and informative. Learned a lot. Definitely recommended.
Really well organized tour of Bordeaux and the wine region which I strongly recommend to those interested.
The tour was very nice, but the guide made it exceptional with his culture, passion and competence. The bus was a bit old, and it was a bit too hot inside.
This is an extremely good value trip. The museum tour at the beginning of the tour is very interesting and the guide really knew her stuff. Lunch was good not fantastic in light of the quality of food in Bordeaux, but a full 3 courses with as much wine as you want and very accommodating staff. The chateaux tours were both great and informative for the wine novice, but the guides were able to answer the more complicated questions too. The cellars are beautiful and - in light of a subsequent tour in the Champagne region - are real, as far as we could tell. All in all it was a great value trip. Our only regret was that we did not have time to visit l'ecole de vin opposite the tourist office to further our knowledge of the great bordeaux wines.
Our guide turned up 30 minutes into the trip, but from there she was very friendly and informative. There were only 3 English speaking people on the trip, but she made sure we were given just as much attention as the 20 French tourists. It was quite entertaining watching her jump from French to English and keeping the whole group engaged. The information we received at each winery was very informative and our guide did a great job of translating eveything into English for us. Lunch was great and highly recommended, especially for fans of cheese. Aside from the delicious cheese entree, wine and duck main course, before desert we visited the cheese cellar, containing some 150 cheeses and could help ourselves to as many types of cheese as we cared to taste. I repeat, heaven for cheese fans. The second winery we visited was amazing, especially with the tasting taking place in a medieval castle surrounded by a moat. A very worthwhile way to experience a tour of Bordeaux!
As we are Australian wine lovers, we wanted to sample some French wines. This tour takes you to a wine museum showing the changes throughout the centuries, and the merchant houses. Traveling to the chateau's for the tastings the countryside is beautiful. You also visit the wine cellars. It is interesting for those who wish to know how wine is made in France!
